octobre 31, 2005

A campaign by WAR on WANT to get the Saharawi a referendum for self-determination.--> Homepage--> Online appeal --> Campaign and actions -->Press release : Campaigners demanded swift action from the international community today, the 30th anniversary of Morocco’s invasion of Western Sahara.

Fourth Committee adopts by consensus a draft resolution A/C.4/60/L.4, entitled “Question of Western Sahara ”.By its terms, the Assembly underlines Security Council resolution 1495 (2003) in which the Council expressed its support of the peace plan for self-determination of the people of Western Sahara as an optimum political solution on the basis of agreement between the two parties. It also underline that the parties reacted differently to this plan and continue to support strongly the efforts of the Secretary-General and his Personal Envoy in order to achieve a mutually acceptable political solution to the dispute over Western Sahara.Further, the Assembly calls upon all the parties and the States of the region to cooperate fully with the Secretary-General and his Personal Envoy, and also calls upon the parties to cooperate with the international Committee of the Red Cross in its efforts to solve the problem of the fate of the people unaccounted for, and further calls upon the parties to abide by their obligations under international humanitarian law to release without further delay all those held since the start of the conflict. [read UN Press statement GA/SPD 317, 11.10.05].